Profile of Nuclear Arbitor

one of the problems with demos right now is that even if you see them you can't reliably kill them without AT weapons and then you have to actually hit the tiny thing. you can't clear them with sweepers if the other player is paying attention and RG/grenades don't always pen.

AT gun camo really isn't bad but you don't need it most of the time. perhaps if it gave a first strike accuracy bonus it would be more useful.

and US tank crews can already repair criticals separately from health, it's the second repair ability.

i think aimtime would be better than reload.

i've thought some about the faction designs and come to the conclusion that all the factions are designed to function with 1/2 to 3/4 of their units. this causes problems.

in dow2 (i'm going to talk about it because the underlying mechanics are almost identical and it also used a tier system) 3 tiers with 3-4 units in each tier. these units were not identical between factions and not all factions had the same options but the cores units covered most things and the commanders and their globals mostly covered the small gaps left.

while there was ~~10 units available to each faction you were not expected to use every unit in a match. for one, games were smaller and 6 or 7 squads was the norm late game. additionally you didn't need, and couldn't afford, more than that. in coh2, the tier costs mean that generally no faction has all its units available. soviets can generally afford 2, OKH 1/2 & 3 or 4, and US and OKW can generally afford 2. OKW is the mostly likely to afford all 3 tiers but even then they don't generally utilize units from all.

since no units or roles are duplicated across tiers and not all tiers are available you end up having to decide both want you units you want the option to use and want units you want to actually build. this creates two places to make poor decisions. this is highly pronounced with the soviets who have no hard AT other than the weak t34 if they go t1/t3. the US has a similar issue if they do not get t2 and then for some reason cannot afford shermans or jacksons.

not only is a smaller number of units more boring but it results in predictable "safe builds" and creates balance problems when a player does not have a counter available.

i want it, both random and random allies/axis